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Mac and cheese!



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You may live with an American, but under my roof it's Macaroni Cheese, sonny. Looks fantastic though.

Those ramekins are epically awesome. You have a public thanks on my blog for showing them to me.

Hehe, cheers man. I need to get more of them. I always need to get more...

Who just made Thai Green Curry Chicken Pie?

Me, motherfuckers!

Myself, Danielle, Craster and Mrs Craster went out on Saturday night:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgay ... 415367931/

Take me next time, Craster. I like cheese.

Did Craster have to go to McDonalds after to fill up?

Only one person of the four of us finished all nine courses. It wasn't the one you'd think.

I suspect it is

Why didn't you comment on the Fillet of John Dory with creamed potato, chantrelles, hazelnuts and autumn truffles?

I would have if Craster had taken me.

Is it Dimrill?

The cheese was awesome.

If you take me I'll let you talk to me. I'll even not drink much.

Mrs Z and I plan on going for a taster menu up in the Lakes somewhere after Baba Z II is born. Not sure where yet, watching The Trip has given us a few options.

Go to L'Enclume. If you do nothing else in your life, go to L'Enclume.

Oh WIN: http://www.lenclume.co.uk/offers.html (Champagne Break)

Yeah - do that.

Only running 'til the end of the year, according to the footnote. Hopefully they'll do it in 2011 too, though.

Yeah, I imagine they'll do something similar next year.

I could just take her to that camp site and go to the pub if not.

Classy.

"Oh look, they've delivered sausage and bourbon gazpacho to the tent doorway"

Is that just you poking yourself through the zipper?

OCR'd from the guardian, as I just made it and it was tasty.
Not particularly vegetarian, but I used fake bacon, and eggs from my own chickens (which shouldn't really still be laying but anyway).

BRUSSELS SPROUT
AND POTATO BUBBLE
AND SQUEAK

This is great the morning after the
night before. Top it with a fried
egg and lots of brown sauce. Your
Boxing Day hangover will thank
you for it. Serves four.

50g bacon, finely chopped
1 small onion, peeled
and finely chopped
50g butter
2 sprigs fresh thyme, picked
350g cooked brussels
sprouts, chopped
450g cooked potatoes, lightly
mashed (you can use leftover
roast potatoes for this)
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper
Plain flour, for dusting
Olive oil, for frying

In an ovenproof frying pan, lightly
sauté the bacon and onion in a little
butter until the onion is soft and
translucent. Stir in the thyme
leaves, then the sprouts and potato,
and season generously. Set the
pan aside and, once the mix is cool
enough to handle, use your hands to
mould it into four large patties.
Heat the oven to 200C/400F/gas
mark 6. Dust the patties in flour, ,
and fry lightly in butter and a touch
of oil until golden brown on both
sides (the oil helps prevent the
butter from burning). Transfer to
the oven for four or five minutes,
to make sure they’re heated
through and serve hot. »

Sprouts can go fuck themselves.

Needs hollandaise poured over the top*






*Much like pretty much everything else that exists.

Christ, that sprout totally looks like the Predator or a Storm Trooper.

It's Master Chief!

That's pretty much exactly how I cook all my roasted meats. Buttered foil on top to stop the drying out process even more.

And slow cooking is far less likely to burn the outside, with the inside still being raw than fast cooking due to science.

Malc

Ohhh where did you get the nice ramekins from? they look ace

TJ Maxx, for a bargainous £5 each. Craster has some oval ones that are a little bigger (mine are super small - less than half a pint).

TJ Maxx is a American discount store isn't it? Or is it UK also?I am guessing that they are Le Creuset ramekins from the general look of em, not that i am a kitcheny expert

*EDIT* ahhh didn't realise it is the same company as TK Maxx** many thanks

I never realised you two were so close.

Heh. If you can't get them from TK Maxx you can get them direct from Le Creuset, but I think they're a tenner each that way.

Yup out of stock from TK Maxx at the moment, but will have a good look around the other outlet stores 1st, they look particularly nice though

Cooking dinner for MyFinger, myself, and our girlfriends tomorrow night. Someone pitch me things I could make, I am undecided. I don't have shedloads of time tomorrow afternoon so it can't be too elaborate (although it can be something that takes a long time to cook like casserole).

Thai Hot and Sour Soup.

Welsh flavor it up with the amusingly stereotypical lamb and leeks:

Lamb shanks stuffed with soemthing with white wine and vegetables in them, wrapped in tinfoil. Takes 2.5 hours to cook. I think it's a Jamie receipe. Will find out more later if you want. With the mash potato with stuff in like the Irish eat.

That, there.

It's proper beau.

Fillet steak with homemade chips, haggis and pepper sauce. Yum!

I am being taken out for dinner tomorrow evening otherwise I may have made that myself. (I don't really cook on a Friday evening otherwise we wouldn't eat until about 11pm!)

What did you make?

It's tonight, and I'm going to do the lamb shanks, more or less[1], with some creamy mash and bacon-wrapped asparagus. And Danielle made a pumpkin pie for dessert.

[1] I cannot bring myself to follow a Jamie Oliver recipe too closely because I HATE HIS WRITING STAB STAB KILL.

This year as I am cooking a christmas dinner for the first time I will be recreating my mother's bubble and squeak.

Get leftover roast potatoes (smashed up), other veg, ham/turkey (torn into small bits) and fry in a pan. (always use butter and oil as the oil will stop the butter burning)

Lamb has been in the oven for an hour so far. Smells fantastic.

Boom:

Lamb shank slow-broiled with carrots, onions, leek, garlic, rosemary and thyme butter; on a bed of mashed potato with cream and garlic (which I plated with a mother fucking ring, bitches!); with minted peas and roasted asparagus tips wrapped in smoked streaky bacon.

And Danielle's pumpkin pie with Chantilly cream:

Both look lovely. I hope you enjoyed it.

Looks yum!

What was the lamb like? Personally I would be concerned that it wouldn't be melty enough after 2.5 hours, but I haven't made it for years.